J. G. Ballard says that a lot of writers are 'intensely nostalgic'. Take the Angry Young Men. Kingsley Amis, John Osborne and others weren't responding to what was really going on in society.
'The laying down of the M1 was much more important than anything Jimmy Porter's father-in-law thought about this or that. The motorway system had a much bigger influence on freedom and possibility ... I was interested in the evolving world, the world of hidden persuaders, of the communications landscape developing, of mass tourism, of the vast conformist suburbs dominated by television ...'
Graphene with ripples could help make better hydrogen fuel cells
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The one-atom-thick layer of carbon known as graphene can split hydrogen 100
times more efficiently than an equivalent mass of the best catalysts
because of...
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